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Finished reading: Nacho y Lolita/Nacho and Lolita by Pam Muñoz Ryan 📚
Pam Muñoz Ryan won the Children’s Literature Legacy Award. This was where NoveList Plus recommended starting with her work.
Finished reading: Fox Has a Problem by Corey R. Tabor 📚
Reading my way through this year’s American Library Association Youth Media Award winners. This won the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for the most distinguished beginning reader book. It’s super cute.
Now I’m thinking about Odo’s maintenance of his humanoid form and how it can be read as an analog for neurodivergent masking. Like, he’s really trying to give back what he’s getting but it’s hard, okay? Faces are difficult. 🖖🏻
🖖🏻 Odo is DS9!Data. (And I know, Data is TNG!Spock.)
Finished reading: Dreaming of You by Lisa Kleypas 📚
A sizzling historical that has two refreshing leads: she’s a writer, not a bluestocking. He is a gambling club owner, not a duke.
What are you obsessed with right now? For me it’s the podcast Fated Mates, all things romance book-adjacent, and Parisian vibes.
The personal brand paradox wepresent.wetransfer.com
When a person aspires to be a brand, they forfeit everything that is truly glorious about being human.
Parents who are freelancers/self-employed, what do you do when your kid is home sick? Do you just sort of give up on getting work done?